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Chief Executive Officer | Director | Chief Executive Officer
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Matthew J Desch is Chief Executive Officer at IRDM, with reported holdings spanning 3 companies. Matthew J Desch's net worth is not public. Form 4 filings only show shares in the companies where this person is an insider; those holdings are worth an estimated $62.4M at current prices.
Our model assigns Matthew J Desch a middling insider score of 67/100, based on 18 past trades. Over a 12-month horizon, 82.4% of those trades were profitable, with an average 12-month return of +23.5%.
Matthew J Desch's largest disclosed position is in IRDM as Chief Executive Officer, worth about $61.4M. The IRDM filings lean toward selling, a net 1,430,853 shares.
Matthew J Desch has 84 Form 4 filings on record from March 2016 to October 2026, across 3 companies: Chief Executive Officer at Iridium Communications (IRDM), 2016–2026; Director at VeriSign (VRSN), 2025–2026; Director at Unisys (UIS), 2019–2026.
The 165 reported transactions were 69 tax withholdings, 42 stock awards, 33 open-market sales and 9 option exercises, plus smaller numbers of other types.
Counted by filing, the open-market trades come to 4 purchases worth about $1.7M and 21 sales worth about $54.4M.
The largest open-market purchase was 28,000 shares of IRDM at an average $37.01 on November 20, 2023, about $1.0M. Twelve months later IRDM was down 26%.
The largest open-market sale was 100,058 shares of IRDM at an average $62.82 on February 22, 2023, about $6.3M. Twelve months later IRDM was down 54%.
| Date | Ticker | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value | Chg% | 3M | 12M | SEC |
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| Oct 30, 2025 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Buy | 20,000 | $17.33 | $346,600.00 | +1.8% | +20.1% | +161.1% | |
| Nov 20, 2023 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Buy | 28,000 | $37.01 | $1,036,280.00 | +4.1% | -20.9% | -26.0% | |
| May 9, 2023 | UIS Unisys Corp | Director | Buy | 50,000 | $3.87 | $193,250.00 | New | +11.3% | +26.6% | |
| Feb 22, 2023 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sale+OE | 100,058 | $62.82 | $6,285,643.56 | -14.1% | -4.8% | -53.7% | |
| Jan 12, 2023 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 30,067 | $60.07 | $1,806,124.69 | -5.5% | -2.7% | -37.1% | |
| Jan 11, 2023 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 46,560 | $60.07 | $2,796,966.58 | -7.8% | +0.4% | -35.3% | |
| Jan 6, 2023 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 31,641 | $55.95 | $1,770,223.58 | -5.0% | +1.7% | -35.7% | |
| Jan 4, 2023 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 31,818 | $54.18 | $1,723,798.52 | -4.8% | +15.9% | -25.3% | |
| Nov 7, 2022 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 12,453 | $52.21 | $650,145.13 | -1.7% | +13.2% | -28.3% | |
| Nov 2, 2022 | IRDM Iridium Communications Inc. | Chief Executive Officer | Sell | 38,628 | $52.02 | $2,009,493.77 | -5.1% | +19.0% | -24.7% |